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Optimized Viral Dose and Transient Immunosuppression Enable Herpes Simplex Virus ICP0-Null Mutants To Establish Wild-Type Levels of Latency In Vivo
1 Jul 2000
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The reduced efficiency with which herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) mutants establish latent infections in vivo has been a fundamental obstacle in efforts to determine the roles of individual viral genes in HSV-1 reactivation. For example, in the absence of the "nonessential" viral immediate-early protein, ICP0, HSV-1 is severely impaired in its ability to (i) replicate at the site of inoculation and (ii)...
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